Interest rate swaps
FVA – Time to go asymmetric?
Despite being introduced over six years ago, there is still no market consensus on how to calculate funding valuation adjustments. One point of contention is whether to use the same funding curve for borrowing and lending (symmetric funding) or to use…
Chinese banks look at swaptions pricing
Switch to market rate for loans prompts lenders to explore hedging tools
Race to create term risk-free rates hots up
Markit joins term Sonia hopefuls; four providers release term €STR plans
Hong Kong eyes SOFR solution for term fixing
New ‘proxy’ Honia could help change discount rate from Hibor to OIS for local swaps, says HKEX
UK swaps carrot for stick in Libor switch
BoE committee mulls policy action, which could include capital hikes on Libor exposures
Lloyds wins consent to flip £1bn covered bond to Sonia
The conversion, backed by 99.84% of bondholders, marks another milestone in the Libor transition
€STR swap trading gets under way
HSBC and JP Morgan strike first swap linked to the new euro short-term rate
LCH sets date for euro swap discounting change
Clearer will make switch for €91 trillion in swaps next June
Ice swap rate failure disrupts exotics desks
Dollar version of rate wasn’t published on nine out of 22 working days in August
Eurex to adopt €STR flat discounting for Euribor swaps
Switch planned for Q2 of 2020, with a single cash payment to correct value transfers
Libor transition and implementation – Covering all bases
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Isda sets two options for Libor fallback spread
Historical spread adjustment to be based on five-year median or 10-year mean
Volume-starved SOFR leaves quant hankering for data
At T Rowe Price, a top quant is tired of SOFR being “yanked around by the liquidity premium”
FCA urges dealers to quote Sonia swaps on Clobs
Regulator co-ordinates efforts to stream firm prices as part of ramped-up transition plans
Deutsche opens bidding for interest rate derivatives
Fixed income assets on the block after equity derivatives sale closes
Tradeweb reveals package trading for swaps and bonds
New tool offers pricing and trading of sterling swap-bond combo
LCH sets €STR swap clearing launch date
Clearing house to offer the swaps from October 21, discounted at Eonia
Clearing house of the year: JSCC
Asia Risk Awards 2019
SOFR discounting switch splits Goldman and JP Morgan
CFTC committee calls on clearing houses to align timing and compensation mechanisms
Swaps data: analysing the US rates collapse
Prices collapse and expected worst-loss numbers hit new records
Brexit flips LCH-Eurex basis
LCH-Eurex basis has inverted on buy-side flows, hitting –1.3bp at July low
Evaluating the impact of Libor fallback
The planned discontinuation of Libor and other interbank offer rates (Ibors) in 2022 will affect a large number of existing financial contracts based on these benchmarks. According to some estimates, Libor-based contracts – such as interest rate swaps,…
CME no longer looking back to Lehman
Changes to rates margin model move CCP into line with rivals
ING issues ESG-linked interest rate swap
Dutch bank takes carrot-and-stick approach on interest rate swap for oil and gas equipment firm